The Family Stone overview

Synopsis:

A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they don't much care for her in this comedy from writer and director Thomas Bezucha. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessman who is dating Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), and has asked her to spend Christmas with his family, with plans to ask his mother, Sybil (Diane Keaton), for the titular family wedding band and propose to Meredith on Christmas Day. Meredith is more than a bit nervous about meeting Everett's folks, and things only get worse when they arrive -- Meredith is by her nature straight-laced and a bit uptight around strangers, while Sybil and family patriarch Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) are free-thinkers who, except for Everett, have raised a family of cheerfully rebellious children, most notably younger daughter Amy (Rachel McAdams), older brother Ben (Luke Wilson), and adopted sibling Thad (Tyrone Giordano), who is both deaf and gay.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Thomas Bezucha
  • Studio: Michael London, Idiom Films, Fox 2000 Pictures
  • Year: 2005
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: PG13 (for some sexual content including dialogue, and drug references.)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2005 12 16 (USA)

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